THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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We would advise those who will be in 

 need of supplies soon, to send in their orders 

 as early as possible, for supply dealers will 

 doubtless be very much crowded with orders 

 during the coming few weeks. The con- 

 tinue! cold wtather in March kept bee- 

 keepers generally from realizing that spring 

 was so near at hand, hence they delayed order- 

 ing goods until later than usual, resulting in 

 a rush of orders. 



There are certain parties in the queen and 

 supply business whose advertisements appear 

 in some of the bee journals whose business 

 careers will soon come to an ignominious 

 end unless they reform, and reform quick. 

 We shall certainly publish them if their 

 present course is continued. " Honesty is 

 the best policy." 



Several thousand copies of the American 

 Bee-Keeper are sent out this month to 

 those who are not subscribers. We hope 

 everyone who receives a copy will look it 

 through carefully, and then send us fifty 

 cents and receive it regularly for a year. 



We are in receipt of a copy of the Cali- 

 ifornia Orchard and Farm, published at San 

 Franciso, which contains an apiary depart- 

 ment under the editorial charge of S. L. 

 Walkins, of Giizzly Flats, Cal. 



Every bee keeper who receives a copy of 

 this number of the Bee-Keeper is request- 

 ed to read it and show it to some of their 

 box hive brethren, and endeavor to induce 

 them to change to frame hives. 



Be sure that your bees have plenty of 

 stores this month. If they have not it is 

 advisable to feed them up well, as they will 

 consume more now than at any time during 

 the past winter, as the queen is rearing 

 brood. 



In the March number we stated that The 

 Revieiv was one of the papers containing the 

 ad. of the Chicago Bee-Keepers' Supply 

 Co. Brother Hutchinson advises us that 

 The Review has not contained the ad. refer- 

 red to since last June, as upon learning at 

 that time some of the facts which we gave, 

 the ad. was stopped. We are glad to know 

 that The Review is with us in our endeavor 

 to weed out some of the unreliable concerns. 



Owing to an unusual larje number of 

 ads. sent in for this number and a large 

 number of important items of interest to our 

 readers which we wished to present this 

 month, we are compelled to add four extra 

 pages. 



The American Bee-Keeper will be 

 sent to new subscribers for the balance of the 

 year — eiyht months — for only 25 cents. 



Remember that we will send a package of 

 seeds worth 11.50 at retail and the Bee- 

 Keeper one year for 75 cents. This is a 

 rare chance. 



LITERARY ITEMS, 



Allen Eastman Cross contributes a fine 

 tribute to Cardinal Manning in the April 

 New England Magazine. It is based upon a 

 newspaper paragraph, which in noting his 

 beneficence said that, at his funeral the best 

 thing said of him was, ' " He was good to 

 the poor.' This alone is a noble epitaph." 

 Mr. Cross takes this for the title and central 

 idea of his poem, which all lovers of Man- 

 ning will cherish. 



The complete novel in Lippincott's Maga- 

 zine for April, " But Men Must Work," is 

 by the well-known and popular author, 

 Rosa Nouchette Carey. In it the narrator, 

 as visiting governess and presiding genius, 

 digs her way into the family secret, and 

 at last banishes the family skeleton. 

 " Milk for Babes," a short but important 

 article, by Mrs. Louise Hogan, discloses 

 facts which bear directly on the health and 

 life of children. 



"Reciprocity and the Farmer," is the 

 subject of an article written for the April 

 number of the North American Review by 

 the Hon. Hilary Herbert, chairman of the 

 committee on naval affairs. 



Under the head of " Our National 

 Dumping Ground," the North American 

 Review will give in its April number a study 

 of immigration, written by the Hon. John 

 B. Weber, United States inspector of immi- 

 gration, and Charles Stewart Smith, presi- 

 dent of the New York Chamber of Com- 

 merce. 



